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Jenny, what I was referring to was the 'religious right' movement in Texas that is trying to change the public education system by making bible studies mandatory, and replacing Darwinism with creationism. And sure, many states have capital punishment, but Texas executes people tenfold compared to what other states do.

...that would be the God-fearing, Death Penalty State Of Texas.

^never gets seasick. ....I'm gonna guess.

Johnny Cash

I have often quoted to people that there are someplace in the south where the Jim Crow laws are still unofficially in effect. Sometimes the response is "that's silly, Jim Crow laws have been abolished", which I reply "maybe on the books, but they're still observed".

If PyrateCon in the Crescent City can pull off "Seven...Hundred...and...Fifty...Pirates" as you said in another post, then I say why let a couple miles of blue-green sea stand in the way of going-or not going?

If Trent Lott ever became president, we would still be living in the past.

Sorry, folks, It looks like 1998, my apologies.

I was looking for more early 1700's era artifacts on the net from a site that talks about, albeit a sensitive topic, the slave trade in Newport RI, and stumbled across this map . It seems to me a bit too polished for that era, but not too much information, just a continental global map. let me know what you think: http://www.colonialcemetery.com/images/sla...ave%20trade.jpg

More pictures, indeed! Nothing beats a boat with lapstrake construction.

Captain Jim wrote: Indeed! I was at Ft Zach, and you were the funniest and wittiest man there....a true inspiration. The picture of you and your beautiful wife says it all! I was only there for a day. I can't wait to go back. I have a very busy work & life schedule and have to choose where to spend the money I got, but I'm working on PIP no doubt. I'm writing to you from SW Florida as I write this. As for Mr Hugh, the Callenish Gunner, I couldn't help but spit my coffee laughing this morning (very good, y'old salt!), but feel some sympathy for us NJ residents who live in the most over-regulated, over-taxed, over-polluted state in the bloody God-damned union! There's enough chemicals in our breathing air to keep us on a buzz for a year.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/21/pirate.co...n.ap/index.html

This is the banana tree in my mom's back yard. She planted it 3 years ago but the bananas never got ripe or big. We are not sure why. Other people have banana trees on our street that are doing very well. IMG]

dunno if this helps: scroll down to the common man's work coat sleeve option A,B, C http://www.jarnaginco.com/FIcatframe.html

"Intend to love",you say? Was it seasickness...or did something bad happen last time?

I reccomend any of you who who like Caribbean sunsets to listen to the song 'Chan Chan' by the Buena Vista Social Club.

Christine, this is the only way you can look at it. My condolences. I get very choked up with my dogs. I'm very distraught that dogs have such short lives. I've had 3 awesome dogs in my life time: Pumpkin (called her Punky) she was a tenacious, but fluffy little border collie who was ourageously affectionate to me, but passionately hated mailmen. Sam was an abandoned Great Dane/black Lab that I my father found, he acted as if he thought he was human (rear feet looked like huge bananas when he laid down), Tyler was a brown lab that had more sense of humour than any dog I've ever seen.

Captain Jim, many thanks, that is exactly what I wanted to hear. My hobbies seem to revolve around fine woodworking, expecially of the nautical variety. ....first, I have to deal with the police-state laws of NJ: 1. Aquire hand-gun license (which means I get fingerprinted), 2. apply for purchase permit. All must be done since I live directly behind my town's police dept. and a few of my neighbors are cops. Then, if I ever make PIP, (which d I saw you last year there...if that was you bespectacled) I must find a way to get in and out of airports. I just want to stay within the law. Blackpowder guns get treated the same as H&K assault rifles here in NJ. I even have to register my .177 cal CO2 air pistol, which I never did. I've seen reenactors of all genres a trillion times, so I'm pretty familiarized with the experience, I've fired more than a half dozen guns, including a 45 automatic, 30/30, so I never thought guns were a big deal. It's just with my state, that I will get looked at and possibly treated as if I was the VT shooter applying for a Barrett 50 cal. All I want to do is make noise and look like a real pirate, then lock it away.

FRUIT-STRIPE gum

I have 'the Pretenders: the singles' loaded up right now. Chrissie Hynde with the old line-up is so fitting .

^^British... ^tea ...party (as in Boston 1773)

I don't know the exact gun laws in Virginia, but would only ask how someone could slip through the system if 1.being a registered alien and not a US citizen, and 2. having had a few run-ins (been investigated by the police and being referred to a mental hospital, etc). Did he just manage to fly under the radar? How does the second amendment apply to non-US citizens? My state requires a pretty legnthy dossier and compulsory training, and I would guess is stricter than most states. In fact, I am prohibited by law (NJ, NY) to purchase a blackpowder unassembled 'kit' of any kind, such as the one that Captain Jim did, off the internet. I guess NJ is scared of pirate reenactors going on a shooting rampage with a one-shot pistol. I am also required to register (you laugh) my only two airguns, which I never did.

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Not sure whether these particular Connecticut people have ever dealt with the Disney prop department, but they got some nifty stuff, particularly period Queen Anne pistols....something to aspire to: http://www.ambroseantiques.com/fpistols.htm Captain Jim, now that I have a complete woodshop down in my basement, I am burning to do one of those kits from the link you mentioned. Any suggestions to get that dark gummy antique look on the wood/metal appreciated.

First, my heart goes out to the family, and friends of The VT students whose lives were unfortunately cut short. Without getting political over debate over gun laws, procedures, politics. As far as I'm concerned, I am both a conservative and a liberal....and yet I am neither. Perhaps the shooter was someone who never felt any love or compassion in his life, perhaps any love from his own family. All I can say ,is today I thought of this Elvis Costello song: